OpenVMS V8.2 Technical Update

Course overview

This 2-day course introduces several new and enhanced utilities for OpenVMS V8.2 as well as infrastructure changes, Host-Based Minimerge and operation on HP Integrity platforms.

Prerequisites

• Experience managing and supporting OpenVMS V7.x.
• Programming experience is beneficial bit not essential.

Audience

• HP OpenVMS V8.2 support personnel.
• HP OpenVMS V8.2 systems programmers.

Ways to save

Course Objectives

Introduce the new and enhanced features of OpenVMS V8.2.

Benefits to you

• Covers just the changes since OpenVMS V7.3 for a quick start with OpenVMS V8.2.
• With OpenVMS V8.2, there are several infrastructure changes of which support personnel and system programmers need to be aware.

Next Steps

OpenVMS V8.2 Internals Differences (U8632S).

Detailed Course Outline

User Features

• Introduction
• Integrity Servers
• New /IMAGE Qualifier for SHOW SYSTEM
• File Manipulation Commands
• Control T Processing
• Clusterwide Logical Names
• SEARCH Enhancements
• New SHOW FASTPATH Command
• DCL Mailbox Support
• Licensing
• F$FID_TO_NAME Lexical Function
• MONITOR Changes
• Token Size
• Multipath Support
• System Service Logging
• SET/SHOW IMAGE
• Device Compatibility
• Symbolic Link Support
• Miscellaneous Changes

General System Management Features

• Introduction
• Mixed-Architecture Cluster Consideration
• Host-Based MiniMerge Support
• New Parameters Affecting HBMM
• Prioritizing Merge and Copy Operations
• SDA Support Enhancements
• SYSMAN DUMP_PRIORITY Command
• New System Parameters
• TDC V2.1
• TCP/IP

Programming Features

• Introduction
• Extended Lock Value Block
• Infrastructure Changes
• Pshared Object Support

Intergity Server Differences - Console

• Introduction
• General Itanium Architecture
• OpenVMS on Integrity Servers
• Installing OpenVMS on Integrity Servers
• Mapping Console Devices to OpenVMS Device Names
• Booting OpenVMS
• Boot Options Command Procedure
• Alpha Console Equivalents
• Review of Console Interfaces

General Integrity Features

• Introduction
• OpenVMS IA64 Licensing
• IA64 Architectural Considerations
• OpenVMS Caling Standard on IA64